About the Ahmedabad Design Week

Ahmedabad Design Week is a neutral and non-commercial design festival event organised annually with a sole purpose of networking and knowledge exchange among designers, academicians and students. Ahmedabad Design Week (ADW) debuted as India Design Confluence (IDC), a three-day design festival organised from 23rd to 25th November 2018. + Know More
Inspired by 'Make in India', IDC promoters felt it was an apt moment for the emergence of 'Design in India'. Thus, was born Ahmedabad Design Week an extension of IDC. The first edition of ADW was organised from 17th to 19th January 2020 at Ahmedabad themed 'Design in India' with a vision to initiate efforts to make Ahmedabad as the Design Capital of India.

The second edition of Ahmedabad Design Week is scheduled from 3rd to 7th February 2021.

The Theme of ADW 2021 is 'Toy'ing with Design.

The ADW Confluence Theme

Toy'ing

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Design

Inspired by the clarion call of Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi ji to make India the global toy hub, Ahmedabad Design Week 2021's theme is "Toy'ing with Design". It endorses the concept of 'Vocal for Local' and 'Atmanirbhar Bharat'.

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Inauguration & Valedictory

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Panel Discussion


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‘Toy’ing with Design

The story of Indian toys is timeless as the land herself. Toys, produced in every age and culture in history, transmit information about the economic, sociological and cultural aspects of societies maybe more than any other object known to humankind. Toys provide insights into culture, technological developments, ideological structures and moral values of societies at various given periods of time.

ADW2021, brings together the toy makers, designers, storytellers from various cultures across the globe to revisit, relive, create, brainstorm and work on a comprehensive analysis of toys, their design and production characteristics.

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As well as our fantastic range of events at the conference, we have also planned a range of entertainment activities to enthrall and mesmerize you. Music performances, music bands, fashion shows to relax, enjoy and appreciate the wide array of talent in this UNESCO World heritage city of Ahmedabad.

17th Jan 2020

Entertainment Evening with ‘When Chai Met Toast’

18th Jan 2020

Entertainment Evening with
DJ Julia Bliss and DJ Van Moon

19th Jan 2020

KHADI to KINKHAAB – The Handcrafted Story of Indian Couture (Fashion Show) designed and created by Artist, Designer Revivalist Shri Umang Hutheesing

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Design Challenges

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Paper Presentation

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Winners for Toy Design & Paper Presentation

Toy Design Challenge Winners

Category: Students
Name Institute Category
Mr. Jyotirmay, Dubey UID Game Design
Mr. Divyansh, Makadia
Tirth Alpeshkumar Patel
Arham Doshi
SAL Game Design
Ms. Navya, Shukla
Ruchita Barhate
UID Game Design
Ms. Akanksha, Shah NU Game Design
Category: Professionals
Name Organisation Category
Ms. Shivani, Chakrachhattri
Mohit Saini
The Roundumbrella Co Game Design
Mrs. Bhagyashree Kunal Deore
Mr. Kunal Sunjaykumar Deore
Mr. Rohan Suresh Kapadia
Mr. Sunjaykumar Ramchandra Deore
Mrs. Sanjeevani Sanjaykumar Deore
Skiddler Early Childhood Learning

Paper Presentation

Category Author Title
Call for Paper Priya Mohan & Neha Jangir (IICD, Jaipur) Identification of Gaps in the Folk Doll Industry
Srinidhi Meenakshi & AshaAnand
(UID, Ahmedabad)
The Future of Toy Culture and its Impact on Child Development A Vantage Point from a Historical Milieu
Siddhant Shah (Independent Designer) Inclusive Toy Design - Designing for This_Ability
Zankruti Raval + Kriti Malkani + Mira Patel (UID, Ahmedabad) Reviving Toy Culture in India through Design Approaches
Call for Poster Gaurav Vaidya (IIT, Guwahati) The Use of Human-Centered Design Process to develop an Educational Toy
Darshika Kantaria + Kashif Khan
(UID, Ahmedabad)
Toys for educational tools
Sandesh Sanjeev Phalke (IIT, Guwahati) A Gamified Assistive Teaching Aid for Children Living with ADHD
Swati Sunil Shelar
(Independent Designer - JumpDesign)
Checkbox Chaadar

Event
Schedule

  • 03
  • 04
  • 05
  • 06
  • 07
03rd Feb, 2021Hall No 1Hall No 2
09:00 - 10:00

Inauguration by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, FRS, FREng

 
11:30 - 12:15

Prof. Sudarshan Khanna and Surbhi Khanna (Keynote Session)

 
12:15 - 13:00

Topic: Dialogue on ‘Ahmedabad – the Design Capital of India’

CEPT University

  • Kartikeya Sarabhai (Panel Chair)
  • Dr. Shilpa Das
  • Archana Shah
  • Dr. A. Srivathsan
 
13:00 - 13:15

Break

 
14:00 - 14:45

Topic: Designing Physical Products in a Digital World

Skillmatics

  • Ms. Devanshi Kejriwal
  • Mr. Rahul Minda

Topic: Toys From my Past

  • Workshop by Anant National University – Prof. Sharmila Sagara and Ast. Prof. Nisar Momin

Start Time: 14:00, End Time: 17:00

14:45 - 15:30

Topic: Capacity building and how to scale up toy manufacturing

Mr Manish Kukreja

 
15:30 - 16:30

Toy Tale- Past Present & Future – a presentation

NID

  • Dr. Gayatri Menon
  • Jitendra Singh Rajput
  • Shekhar Bhattacharjee
  • Austin Davis
  • Student team (Khyati Garg, Anushka Kamble, Meeta Bhushan)
 
16:30 - 17:15

Topic: Re-Imaging Childhood

UID

  • Prof. Lollita Dutta
  • Sanjoy Roy
 
17:15 - 1730

Break

 
17:30 - 18:30

Topic: Toys are play materials – and a lot more. Discovering the potential of toys

Siegfried Zoels

 
18:30 - 19:15

Paul Budnitz

 
19:15 Onward -

Once upon A Toy… An evening by storytellers
Preeti Das and Vikram Sridhar

 
04th Feb, 2021Hall No 1Hall No 2
10:00 - 10:45

Topic: Toy Design / Product Development / Healthy Lifestyle

Miguel Wilson

 
10:45 - 12:00

Dadi Pudumjee
(Keynote Session)

Topic – Toy Workshop

Workshop by Anant National University

Ast. Prof. Aditi Vashisth

Start Time: 11:00, End Time: 14:00

12:00 - 12:45

Topic: Power of Play, People and Places- Rethinking Design of Toys and  Play Activities

M S University

  • Dr. Bhawana Vasudeva
 
12:45 - 13:30

Topic: Trendz N Toys

Panel Discussion

  • Mr. Narender Kumar
  • Mr. Nitin Kalra
  • Prof. Taruna Vasa
  • Mr. Ajay Bisht (moderator)
 
13:30 - 13:45

Break

 
13:45 - 14:30

Mr. Krishan Jagota

 
14:30 - 15:15

Topic: UI/ UX of Toys and Aesthetics and Packaging

  • Dr. Manish Arora

Topic: How to think of a new BOARD GAME idea?

Workshop by National Institute of Design

Austin Davis

Start Time: 15:00, End Time: 16:30

15:15 - 16:00

Mr. Philip Royappan

 
16:00 - 16:45

Topic: Toy makes a Nation

Panel Discussion by Anant National University

  • Prof. Anubha Kakroo
  • Ms. Anisha Mukherji
  • Ms. Shaguna Gahilote
  • Ms. Shradha Jain
 
16:45 - 17:00

Break

 
17:00 - 18:00

Evening Entertainment – Illusionist

 
05th Feb, 2021Hall No 1Hall No 2
10:30 - 11:30

Topic: Emerging Technologies, Robotics and Design

IIT Delhi

  • Prof. (Dr.) P.V.M. Rao

Johnathon Strebly

11:30 - 12:15

Topic: Architect or Toy – Dwelling in Un-designed Spaces

Mr. Adrian Light

Topic: DIY print toys

Workshop by Swarnim Startup & Innovation University

  • Jeremy Fritzhand

Start Time: 12:00, End Time: 13:00

12:15 - 13:00

Anita Savicka

 
13:00 - 13:15

Break

 
13:15 - 14:00

Ar. Aishwarya Tipnis

Workshop by ADI

Start time : 13:45 – End time : 15:15

14:00 - 14:45

Speaker Session by Nirma University

  • Prof. Sangita Shroff
 
14:45 - 15:30

Session by GLS Institute of Design

  • Ast. Prof. Pritesh Bhatia

Jugaadopolis (Studio ATA)

Start Time: 15:00, End Time: 16:00

16:45 - 17:00

Break

 
17:00 - 18:00

Industry Townhall

  • Dr. Guruprasad Mohapatra, IAS
  • Smt. Anju Sharma, IAS
  • Dr. Mariana Amatullo
  • Pradyumna Vyas
  • Alok Nandi
  • Srini Srinivasan
  • Hemant Suthar
  • Johnathon Strebly
 
06th Feb, 2021Hall No 1Hall No 2
9:00 - 9:45

Speaker Session by Hasbro

  • Jared Wade
 
10:00 - 10:45

Colin Giles

Prof. (Dr.) Thomas Garvy

Start Time: 10:30, End Time: 11:15

10:45 - 11:30

Mahendra Chauhan

Panel Discussion

  • Harald Belker
  • Harish CB

Start Time: 11:15, End Time: 12:00

11:30 - 12:15

Topic: The Serious Fun of Play: Ideation of Board Games

Panel discussion by Unitedworld Institute of Design (UID)

  • Sambit Kumar Pradhan
  • Abeer Kapoor
  • Sajid Chougle
  • Sreeranjini GS
 
12:15 - 13:00

Topic: What does ArtFormer mean? – On the border of play, art and designing

  • Dr. Antal Kelle

Topic: Playful Design for Collaborative Creativity, Innovation, Ideation and Problem-Solving in STEAM Learning

  • Dr. Kristóf Fenyvesi
 
13:00 - 13:15

Break

Break

13:15 - 14:00

Katerina Kamprani

 
14:00 - 14:45

Topic: Stories of the North-East

  • Sonam Tashi Gyaltsen
 
14:45 - 15:30

Topic: Kashmiri Toys

NIT Srinagar

Jugaadopolis (Studio ATA)

Start Time: 15:00, End Time: 16:00

15:30 - 16:15

Session by UID

  • Hariesh K Sankaran
 
16:15 - 17:00

Session by Gujarat University

  • Samir Shukla

Topic: Innovating for the North East

Panel Discussion

NID Jorhat

  • Prof. V. Ravishankar
  • Vikram Mitra

IIT Guwahati

  • Dr. D. Udaya Kumar

IIM Shillong

  • Dr. Sanjeeb Kakoty
17:00 - 18:30

School Townhall

  1. Smt. Anju Sharma, IAS
    Principal Secretary (Higher & Technical Education), Govt. of Gujarat
    Chairperson, i-Hub
  2. Mr. Rajnish Kumar, IRSME
    Director (Digital Education), Department of School Education & Literacy, Govt. of India
  3. Prof. (Dr.) Himanshu Pandya
    Vice-Chancellor, Gujarat University
  4. Dr. Anunaya Chaubey
    Provost, Anant National University
  5. Shri Harshad Shah
    Vice-Chancellor, Children’s University
  6. Prof. Avlokita Agarwal
    Department of Architecture & Planning, IIT Roorkee
  7. Prof. (Dr.) Kumkum Bharti
    IIM Kashipur
  8. Prof. (Dr.) Pawan Kumar Rakesh
    Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIT Uttarakhand
 
07th Feb, 2021Hall No 1Hall No 2
11:30 - 12:15

‘TOYS that GROW with a child’ by Suhasini Paul

Paper Presentation

Start time : 10:00 End time : 13:00

12:15 - 13:00

Topic: Collaborative Creativity to Introduce Design Thinking based on Transdisciplinary Children’s Art

Workshop by Experience Workshop Global STEAM Network

  • Dr. Kristóf Fenyvesi
  • Werner Olivier
  • Catherine Steyn
  • Pamela Burnard
  • Pallawi Sinha
  • Suné Stassen
  • Chris Brownell
  • Zsolt Lavicza
  • Shirin and Heramb Kulkarni
 
13:00 - 13:15

Break

 
13:15 - 14:00

Nurturing Space for Children – A Panel Discussion with Institute of Indian Interior Designers (IIID)

Ranna Parikh
Shweta Balasubramoni
Pavan K Suryadevara
Hariesh K. Sankaran

 
14:00 - 14:45

Panel Discussion on To design toys in an educational and emotional frame

  • Faboio Guaricci
  • Hariesh K Sankaran
 
16:00 - 17:00

Valedictory Ceremony

 
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